Word: de
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wild Oat. She runs a lunch counter. He is rich and romantic. He goes to Plymouth Beach. She follows him, wearing a wig and acting like a gold-digger's idea of a grande dame. He meets but does not recognize her. She says she is the Duchesse de Granville. The real Duchesse de Granville is his stepmother whom he has never seen. She, accordingly, is in a fix. She runs rapidly away, chased by police, house detectives, him. She returns to her lunchwagon. He ties the lunchwagon to his limousine and drags it to the door...
...Pasteur Medal was first given in 1898, by Baron Pierre de Conbertin, to be awarded annually thereafter to the successful candidate in a debate on a subject to be drawn from contemporary French politics...
...Edward Rice, Chairman, and Dorothy Rodgers; J. C. Carter and Marion Haefell; A. G. Churchill and Georgina Denton; W. L. Denton and Alfreida Carter; D. L. Garrison and Deo de Pont; Reed Harwood and Catherine Hedge...
That headline, that poetry and the sketch of "John's Wife" with her mouth open heavenward in praise of a drunkard's nostrum or reaching for "John's" de-alcoholized kiss-last week commanded attention in many a U. S. newspaper which profits from quack-advertisements. Presumably, enough whiskey continues available in the U. S. to gamble that a good percentage of newspaper readers would "fall" for a cure. Such cure Dr. J. W. Haines, of Cincinnati, offered to provide in his powders. They contain milk sugar, starch, capsicum (pepper) and a minute amount of ipecac...
John J. Raskob, chairman of the finance committee of the General Motors Corp., vice-president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., onetime $1,000 a year secretary to Pierre S. du Pont, gave $500,000 toward a fund of $1,500,000 for advancing the Catholic Church in Wilmington, Del. If other Catholics contribute a like amount, John J. Raskob will duplicate his first gift and complete the fund. These are not John J. Raskob's first gratuities to the Roman Catholic Church. Recently, Pope Pius XI made him private chamberlain in the papal menage...